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Lines are double-spaced and left-aligned. Margins are set at one inch. There are no extra spaces between paragraphs and none before or after any title or header. Each paragraph is indented half an inch. The font is 12-point Times New Roman, but APA also accepts 11-point Calibri, Arial, and Georgia as well as 10-point Lucida Sans Unicode and Computer Modern. One space follows a period at the end of each sentence. The title is repeated on this page, centered and bolded. APA assumes the paper begins with an introduction, so there is no introduction heading unless a teacher asks for one.  \nTitle Page  \nFor students, the title page header includes only the page number in the upper right corner. The rest ofthe page is double-spaced, with an extra space between the title and the author’s name. The title is bolded and centered and placed about four double-spaced lines down the page. Below it, unbolded, are the author’s name, the department and university’s names (on a single line), the course number and name, the teacher’s name, and the date.  \nSection Headings  \nAPA (2020) style requires a specific heading format, and headings do not contain numbers. This paragraph begins a new major section of this paper with a Level 1 heading. This sample paper uses two levels of heading, as shown in the next section. Each Level 1 heading is centered and bolded, and each Level 2 subheading is flush left and bolded. All major words are capitalized. Section headings work like outlining, so writers should “avoid having only one subsection heading within a section”(APA, 2020, p. 47) . See the Writing Center’s “APA Headings” handout for papers with more than two levels of headings.  \nStyle Choices  \nPronouns  \nAcademic papers avoid contractions and are normally written in the third person, avoiding “I” and “you.” APA (2020) discourages the vague, general use of “we,” as in “we typically study decision making in a laboratory setting”(p. 120) . It does allow the first person (“I,” “me,” “we,” “our”) when referring specifically to a paper’s authors, but many teachers do not. Students may want to avoid first person unless they know their teacher’s preference.  \nAPA (2020) now encourages the singular use of “they” in cases where an individual’s“gender is unknown or irrelevant”(Lee, 2020,“When Should,” para. 2) . It allows “he or she,”but discourages writers from using that strategy often. Writers should avoid “him/her” or “s/he,”and they should not alternate between “he” or “she” when someone’s sex is unknown. They often can, however, rewrite a sentence to use plural pronouns or to avoid pronouns entirely. Acceptable wording includes “each participant turned in their questionnaire” and “a child should learn to play by themselves [or themself] as well as with friends”(APA, 2020, p. 121) .  \nVerb Tense  \nWriters presenting other researchers’work should use the past tense (“Camacho and Cox found”) or present perfect tense (“Connelly et al. have suggested”) . Writers presenting their own methods and results should use past tense; writers discussing the implications of those results should use present tense.  \nNumbers and Abbreviations  \nIn general, APA style spells out the numbers one through nine but uses figures for larger numbers. All numbers beginning a sentence are spelled out, and a list of other exceptions is on p.  \n178 of the Manual. Almost all abbreviations are spelled out on first reference. When an  \norganization is first named in a paper’s text, its full name is written out. 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